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RE: Jims-steempowered-witness proposal for the Peerplays network & Witness monitoring script with Telegram notifications
What are Witnesses?
I don't know much since I'm new to steem.
What are Witnesses?
I don't know much since I'm new to steem.
Witnesses are the 'miners' / block producers of the Delegated Proof of Stake networks (Peerplays, Steem, Bitshares, YOYOW).
Witnesses are elected into their position by Stakeholders votes, at a minimum; they are responsible for validating transaction, compiling transactions into blocks, signing them and broadcasting them to the network.
For example this comment is considered a transaction; it will be broadcast to the network and seen by the next 'witness' who will validate the transaction and include it in their 'block', once signed it will be sent to the rest of the network and be seen by the other witnesses.
You can learn more HERE
Thanks a bunch steempower.
I'll look into it more
No worries man, Have fun.
If you get stuck we have a massive community between Steem, Telegram, discord and the forums so feel free to jump in and ask questions.